Weeks after student organizers at Columbia University announced a tuition strike to protest their administrationâs âflagrant disregardâ for proposed university-wide demands, Harvard student activists have not indicated if they will organize a tuition strike of their own.
In a November letter, strike organizers at Columbia called on their administration to lower tuition costs, increase financial aid, dismantle the campus private police force, and halt the Universityâs expansion into West Harlem.
If these concerns were not addressed, more than 2,000 Columbia students were prepared to withhold tuition payments and donations to the university, per the letter. As of Feb. 11, more than 4,400 students have signed a petition in support of the strike.